№3 (30) October 2008The Role of the Contemporary Theatre

Editor's note

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History

Evgeny DukovEntertainment HistoryWhy has entertainment become so important since the beginning of the New time? It was known from time immemorial, wasn’t it? Why did its importance grow every new century in spite of strong opposition?

Subject of the Issue

Mikhail NemtsevThe Theatre: QuestionsThere is no theatre in life of a Russian citizen. Its non-existence does not depend of alleged non-professionalism of provincial scene. The same bitter fact may be stated about the inhabitants of big cities, who can make their choice between comparably numerous theatre projects.

Elena ZelentsovaDemocracy as Creative ExperimentSumming up two years of theatre experiment we come to understanding why finally authoritarian management style wins in the country with many educational, creative, strong and clever people.

Tatiana DzhurovaThe TransmutationRussian Engineering Theatre AKHE is the only theatre taken equally seriously by actors, musicians, artists and all others who do not agree with the “standard” boards between various kinds of art.

Nika GarkalinaSounDramaFor the Moscow audience the notion of "soundrama", i.e. of the theatrical space where the main role is played by the sound, is becoming familiar.

Lyda EngelovaTheatre as a National IdeaOne story is to be proud of a theatre’s beautiful house, and it is quite another story to have an actual relation to the theatre life. Nonetheless, Czechs really apprehend theatre as the main thing, a core essence of their folk.

Issue Interview

Marina BalashkinaMeaning of Clan or Special Purpose GroupDescendant of famous merchant clan now known expert in arts technologies field tells the specialist in study of dynasties Marina Balashkina about the one’s own family tree restoration and the meaning of clan history in the destiny

The project

Efim RezvanFive-Ended Star on the QuranIjma‘=Concordia Project gave us a chance to go to Finland and explore the history of the edition along with fates of those people.

Problem

Evgenia NikitinaLooking for Van GoghEkaterinburg Academy of Modern Art has defined its first experience in the inclusion of outsiders’ creative work into the framework of actual city culture.

Sergei NesterovOutsider-artThe success of the Outsider-art Project in Surgut has to a great extent found its full expression not in the rate of attendance, or the words of gratitude, or the attention of the press …

Seminar

Tatiana UshakovaArt in Waldorf schools“Art as the Means of Human Cognition” is a title of the Curative Education International Seminar. This education is based on anthroposophic approaches which are described in the materials we publish in every issue in 2008. The key topic of the work is seven years cycles of human development.

Travel

Evgenia KhozyainovaGulliver’s New Notes…I found one more wonderful country in the Far North which I called Polar Lilliput. And this country is populated with the thousands hundred kinds of small creatures, which are called …